Carol Danvers

Carol Danvers was created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Jan Colan, and first appeared as a member of the US Air Force in the 13th edition of the Marvel Super-Heroes comic in March 1968, and became Miss Marvel's superhero in the 1st issue of Ms. Marvel " in January 1977. In July 2012, Carol Danvers took on the mantle of Captain Marvel in the eponymous series, created by writer Kelly Sue DeConnick and artist Dehter Soyem ^[5] .

Carol Danvers, with her love of aviation, after graduating from high school, got a job in the US Air Force to make her dreams of flying. Carol was the best student at the Air Force Academy and quickly promoted, rising to the rank of major. Due to her performance, excellent combat skills and natural mind, Carol was recruited in the intelligence field. So she got into the Central Intelligence Agency , during the service in which she worked with Colonel Nick Fury . During Nick Fury's special assignment, Carol met Canadian agent Logan . They became partners and together went through many adventures. During one of their assignments, they encountered the brutal mutant Sabretooth , who worked for the Hellfire Club. Working together, Logan and Carol became close friends as well as lovers. They both saved each other's lives several times. When Carol was captured by the KGB , raped and imprisoned in the Lubyanka , Logan was among those who defied the law to save her.

After working with the CIA, Carol came to work at NASA and became director of security at Cape Canaveral . It was in this position that Carol first met Mar-Vella , a warrior of the alien Kriya race, known as Captain Marvel ^[6] . Carol was called upon to unravel the mystery of this alien soldier. During the investigation, Carol has a unique connection with the alien, first they become friends, and then lovers. It is these relationships that will forever change Carol's life.

Captain Marvel’s archenemy, Colonel Jon Rogg, kidnapped Carol, using her as a decoy in his conflict with Marvel. During the battle, Carol and Marvel were caught in the explosion of the Psycho-Magneton device of Kriya. The energy of the explosion caused the merging of Carol's genetic structure with the structure of Marvel, while Marvel did not change ^[7] . Carol was now an advanced hybrid of man and kriya. Thanks to this transformation, Miss Marvel was born.

Due to the refusal to seize and surrender Captain Marvel, Carol lost her job at NASA. She quickly recovered by writing a successful novel about her experience in the space industry, which led to her becoming the editor-in-chief of Woman magazine , a subsidiary of Daily Bugle . Carol's feminist views created tension with her boss Jay Jona Jameson , but made her the perfect choice as editor of a magazine.

Just as Carol began a new chapter in her life, her powers and personality, Miss Marvel, began to manifest. During her career, the superheroine Carol fought with many villains, including the Death Bird, MODOK , A.I.M. , Brotherhood of Mutants , Hellfire Club and Mystic . She joined the Avengers and acted with them for a short period of time, and it was Carol’s belonging to this team that attracted the attention of Marcus. Marcus, the son of the evil genius Immortus, watched the Avengers from afar and became obsessed with Miss Marvel. Marcus abducted Carol using Immortus technology to manipulate the mind ^[8] . Marcus and the drugged Carol conceived a child who would grow quickly and become Marcus, which allowed Marcus to escape the demonic dimension of Limbaugh, after which he returned Carol to the Avengers. Miss Marvel was shocked when she found out that she was pregnant, and devastated, because she was completely ignorant of her father's personality. Pregnancy lasted for several days, the child was born within one day into an adult who was determined to win the love of his "mother". Carol, still bewildered, agreed to accompany the newborn Marcus back to Limbo. In Limbo, Marcus continues to age rapidly and dies of old age, leaving Carol in the dimension without his mind control. Carol felt an aversion to Marcus' manipulations and betrayal of the Avengers.

Carol mastered Immortus' technology and returned to Earth and, without returning to the Avengers, settled in San Francisco . Carol's return to Earth was felt by the mutant fortune teller Fate. Fate had previously predicted that Miss Marvel would participate in an event that would destroy the life of Mystic Schelma's adopted daughter. Mystic vowed to destroy Miss Marvel before this could happen, and was filled with hatred for Miss Marvel. Shelma, overhearing the conversation of Fate and Mystic, decided to personally engage in battle with Carol. Shelma attacked Carol in San Francisco and they fought on top of the Golden Gate Bridge . When Shelma tried to use her power-absorbing ability on Carol, something went wrong and she absorbed too much Carol's personality, making the transference permanent. Maddened by Carol’s thoughts and memories, Shelma threw Miss Marvel’s body off the bridge ^[9] . Carol was rescued by Spider-Woman . At Carol Hospital, she was diagnosed with tabula rasa - a blank slate. Jessica Drew contacts Professor Xavier of the X-Men , who was able to bring back Carol's memories and personality by identifying them from her subconscious. However, he could not restore her emotional connection with these memories and experiences. Carol and Jessica spent some time at the X-Mansion until Carol recovered from the ordeal.

Carol stayed with the X-Men for a short time, during which she often accompanied them on a mission. One of these missions led to the capture of Carol by the aliens of the Broods race. Fascinated by her hybrid physiology of man and Kriya, Broods conducted experiments on her genetic structure. This unleashed Carol's full potential, transforming her into a Double Star ^[10] . Carol now had more power than ever because of her connection with the white hole.

Carol returned to the X-Men, considering joining them on an ongoing basis, but, having caught Shelmu, Carol became furious. The X-Men were reluctant to tell her that Professor X had allowed Schelme to join them. Disagreeing with this, Carol decided to join the space pirates, known as Star Extinguishers , and leave behind her problems on Earth. As a Double Star, Carol was a valuable member of Star Extinction and fought along with them to restore Lilandra as ruler of the Shi'ar Empire. Carol stayed with Star Extinguishers for a number of years, fulfilling her dream of exploring stars. She formed a close friendship with the cyborg Raza Longknife. Later, when the sun of the Earth was in jeopardy, Carol decided to abandon her mission in Shi'ar and help the Avenger Quasar in preserving the sun. This work ran out of Carol's strength and she spent a month at the Avengers Mansion. During this time, she reconciled with the Avengers. When the Star Extinguishers came to Earth and engaged in battle with the Avengers, Carol helped resolve the conflict, then she decided to try to restore her life on Earth.

Carol returned to the Avengers and called herself the Bird of War . But this was followed by many problems. First, her powers began to slowly deplete, she tried to hide this fact from the Avengers, which led to a conflict with Captain America . Carol also had problems with alcohol , which was immediately noticed by the recovering alcoholic Tony Stark . Her alcoholism , combined with her determination to prove herself a worthy addition to the Avengers and the concealment of the fact that she lost her strength, led to violations of her work with the Avengers. This ultimately jeopardized the lives of teammates and led to the formal Avengers military field court. Instead of facing her own problem and forcibly lowering her role to a reserve status, Carol left the group. All this happened amid the conflict between the Avengers and the Kriya rebel faction. In an attempt to join the battle despite leaving the team, Carol realized that she was no longer able to achieve second space speed in order to join the battle on the moon between heroes and aliens.

Despondent, Carol moved to Seattle to work on rebuilding her career as a writer. She began to make some progress in the fight against alcoholism, but refused to admit that it was a serious problem. After her acts committed while intoxicated, almost led to a disaster in some situations, Carol was hospitalized with alcohol poisoning. The doctor warned Carol that she had done significant damage to her body and another drink could kill her. This diagnosis, combined with the realization that she nearly destroyed a plane full of people during a drunken rage, made Carol admit the seriousness of her alcohol problem. After that, she began to attend meetings of anonymous alcoholics on a regular basis. Since then, she was again admitted to the Avengers and once again took the name Miss Marvel .

After the Scarlet Witch changed reality, Carol was one of the few who remembered these events. She was determined to prove that she was a true hero. Captain America invited her to join the new Avengers team, and after refusing, he assured that a place in the team was always vacant for her.

Miss Marvel fought her old enemy, Mystic, and the Captain Marvel clone created by the Skrulls during the Secret Invasion , after they were involved in a series of tragedies in the temples of the Hall Church dedicated to Mar-Vell. Carol allies with Captain America in countering the Iron Patriot during the siege of Asgard . She has a friendship with Spider-Man . Although at first he annoyed her, they continued to work together, and their friendship became closer after he helped her during the Dark Reign.

Carol Danvers later took the name Captain Marvel and joined the Guardians of the Galaxy .

Carol, being Miss Marvel, possessed superhuman strength, endurance and strength. It can withstand pressure equal to 92 tons and shock with a similar level of force ^[11] . She is able to fly at a speed equal to about half the speed of sound ^[12] and shoot from her hands with energy charges. Carol also demonstrated the ability to absorb other forms of energy, such as electricity, to further increase its strength and energy projection, up to the force of a nuclear weapon explosion ^[13] .

Being a Double Star, it could use the energy of a “white hole”, which allows manipulating stellar energy and, therefore, controlling heat, electromagnetic spectrum and gravity. Also had the ability to move at the speed of light and the ability to exist in the vacuum of space.

Carol Danvers is also a well-trained spy, a highly skilled pilot and owns an army hand-to-hand combat.

Century of the Apocalypse

Carol Danvers, who lacks superpowers, helps Logan and Gateway escape at the cost of his life. She is then healed and used by Pierce as a living weapon against her friends ^[14] .

Exiles

The wicked version of Miss Marvel joins alternative Weapon X explorers and becomes the mistress of the villain Hyperion ^[15] .

Ultimate

In the Ultimate storyline, Carol Danvers, having no superpowers, after the disappearance of Nick Fury, became the new director of Sch.I.T. ^[16] In this position, she collaborated with many famous superheroes, such as the X-Men and the Fantastic Four , whom she fought with during the advent of the Apocalypse . Together with Spider-Man, she confronted the Green Goblin , which subsequently led to the death of his son Harry Osbourne and Parker's hostility to Carol.

Carol was appointed commander of the New Ultimates group. She, along with the other women of the group, came under the Amora spell during Loki's invasion. Carol was able to get rid of the spell, freed the rest of the team and led them into battle against Loki. ^[17]

Soon, a mysterious enemy begins an attack on superheroes and famous corporations. Carol Danvers orders Ben Grimm , Susan and Johnny Storm, along with Nick Fury, to find out who is behind these attacks. The heroes found out that the mysterious enemy is Reed Richards , who plans to create a second attack. But after his defeat, Carol Danvers invites Jessica Drew to become an agent of Sch.I. T. ^[18]

After Spider-Man was captured and replaced by Chameleon , Danvers decided that Peter Parker was unprepared, she came to his aunt May Parker and they both agreed that Peter would attend training sessions with individual members of New Ultimates ^[19] .

Carol Danvers and her New Ultimates fought against Nick Fury and the Avengers when each side accused each other of betrayal. As a result, Carol leaves the post of director Sch.I. T. and this place is again taken by Nick Fury ^[20] .

X-Men: The End

In the limited X-Men: The End series, Miss Marvel’s version exists in the form of clean energy and controls the spacecraft of the Star Raiders ^[21] .

Animated

• Miss Marvel, voiced by Roscoe Handford, appears on the 1992 Rogue's Tale series A Rogue's Tale . Before the start of the series, Shelm is deprived of her strength, and she falls into a coma. Along with Miss Marvel’s abilities, her consciousness, which was blocked by Professor X , also passes to Shelma. In the second season, Professor X was away from the team for a long time, and Miss Marvel's mind freed and tried to take possession of Shelma's body, but she and Gina Gray defeated her ^[22] . At the end of the series, Shelma visits Miss Marvel in the hospital, and a hint is shown that her consciousness is returning to her.
• Miss Marvel appears in the animated comic strip Spider-Woman: Agent of SWORD, part of the Marvel Knights Animated, voiced by Theina Nelson.
• Miss Marvel regularly appeared in the comedy animated series The Superhero Squad , where Gray Delail was voiced ^[23] .
• In the animated series Avengers. Earth's greatest heroes ”Carol Danvers was voiced by Jennifer Hale . In the series "459" was shown as an agent S.H.I.T., who served in the observatory together with Captain Marvel , an alien of the Kriya race disguised as a human being. During the attack, the sentry Kriya was badly wounded and was unconscious. Captain Marvel healed her with the help of his abilities, while giving her his superhuman powers, which is evident when at the end of the series she comes to her senses, hovering in the air ^[24] . In the second season of the series in the series “Welcome to the Kree Empire”, she appeared as an agent M.E.Ch., then after the invasion of the Kriya envoys to the Earth, she was first shown as Miss Marvel, she won the battle of Ronan , and then became part of Avengers after a joint battle with the aliens. She left the team after it turned out that one of them was a disguised alien metamorph from the Skrull race, which led to a conflict between team members. Miss Marvel later returned to the team during the Skrull mass invasion of Earth ^[25] .
• Gray Delaille voiced Carol Danvers in the animated series Avengers, the general assembly! ".
• Carol appears in season 2 of the animated series Guardians of the Galaxy 2015, where she was again voiced by Gray Delail.
• Captain Marvel appears as a member of the Avengers in Episode 5 of Season 2 of the animated series Spider-Man 2017.

Movies

Animation

• Carol Danvers appears as Captain Marvel in The Avengers: The Black Widow and The Punisher.
• Carol Danvers, voiced by Gray Delaille , appears in the image of Captain Marvel in the cartoon “ The Adventures of Superheroes: Frosty Fight ” ^[26] .

Marvel Cinematic Universe

• Carol Danvers planned to add to the KVM in the television series " Jessica Jones ", but her character was replaced by another character - Trish Walker . Previously, Marvel Studios planned to use the character in the movie " Avengers: Infinity War ", but this idea was abandoned, having decided to first show it in a solo project. However, a reference to the character first appeared in this film. In the scene after the credits, Nick Fury, before disappearing with half the population, manages to send a distress signal using a special pager, the answer to which was the emblem of Captain Marvel.
• On October 28, 2014, Marvel Studios officially announced the date for the premiere of Captain Marvel on July 6, 2018 ^[27] . In February 2015, Marvel postponed the release date to November 2, 2018. She was planned to be added to the Avengers: Age of Ultron, but this idea was abandoned. In July 2016, at the Comic-Con in San Diego, it became known that the role of Carol would be played by actress Bree Larson ^[28] . In April 2017, Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck were hired by the directors. In August, Geneva Robertson-Dvoet was hired to write the script, replacing Nicole Perlman and Meg Lefar, who have been since April 2015. Nicole Perlman had previously reported that the origin of Captain Marvel in KVM would be very different from what fans saw in the comics. The film took place in 1989 and 1995, that is, before the events of all films of the cinema universe with the exception of "First Avenger." The release of the film was delayed on March 8, 2019 ^[29] . According to the plot, she flew together with Dr. Wendy Lawson, who turned out to be an alien from the Kriya race named Mar-Vell. They are attacked by other Kriyas under the command of Jon Rogg in order to capture the engine created with the help of Tesseract. Jon-Rogg kills Mar-Vell, and Carol destroys the engine, which explodes and gives Carol super powers, but she loses her memory. Jon Rogg takes Carol to her, she becomes a member of the Star Force squad and bears the name Vers. During one of the missions, the Skrulls abduct her, who manage to activate part of her memories. But Carol escapes from them and lands on Earth. There she meets agent SHIELD Nick Fury. Soon her memory returns, and she realizes that her enemies are Kriyas, not Skrulls, who turned out to be a race of outcasts. Together with Fury, the cat Goose (which turns out to be an alien from the Fleurkin race), a former fellow pilot Maria Rambo and Skrull Talos, she finds the Mar Vell orbital base, where Tesseract was kept and the rest of the Skrulls were hiding. There is a skirmish with Kriya, but Carol's friends manage to save and fly out of the base. Carol herself, having discovered the ability to levitate, prevents the Kree fleet under the command of Ronan from bombing the Earth. Then defeats Yon Rogg and sends him to Hala, the capital of Kriya. In the film's finale, she flies away with the Skrulls to help them find a new home. In the end, she leaves Nick Fury with his own pager, which she perfected, and with the help of him you can contact at a distance of several galaxies. The first scene after the credits shows how Carol arrives at the Avengers who found the Fury pager.
• Bree Larson has returned to the role of Carol Danvers in the crossover film Avengers: Final . In the beginning, she saves Tony Stark and Nebula by bringing them to Earth. Later involved in a battle with Thanos, during which it became clear that the Infinity Stones were destroyed. Most of Carol’s subsequent film is in space and sorted out with problems. In the end, she arrives on Earth and participates in the final battle. Carol destroys the ship of Thanos and at a decisive moment does not allow him to snap his fingers again. In the end, she loses when Thanos used a Stone of Strength removed from her glove against her.

Video Games

• Miss Marvel is a game character in the game " Marvel: Ultimate Alliance " and its continuation, " Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 " ^[30] .
• He is a playable character in the games Marvel Super Heroes and LEGO Marvel's Avengers .
• Captain Marvel is a playable character in Marvel Future Fight.
• Captain Marvel and Miss Marvel are game characters in the Marvel Contest of Champions game.
• Captain Marvel and Miss Marvel are game characters in the Marvel Strike Force game.

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